Lunch hour lectures repository Autumn 2009
- The spirit of UCL
- Why psychiatry has to be social
- The new biology of ageing
- Dhoti, Suit and Trilby: M.K Gandhi and his opponents
- Seeing the invisible: Observing the dark side of the universe
- Tales of vampires and the undead
- Why the courts are as important as hospitals to the nation’s health
- The power of Lagerlöf
- Recession and the public health – what is the evidence?
- Liverpool to Liverpool
- A visual people and a visual language
- Living buildings: Towards sustainable cities
- The challenge of HIV refuses to disappear
- Studying dinosaur evolution – An early 21st century perspective
- The right to obscene thoughts
- The making of Johnson’s dictionary
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Dhoti, Suit and Trilby: M.K Gandhi and his opponents
23 July 2009
Thursday 22 October (To celebrate the 140th Anniversary of Gandhi’s birth – 2 October)
Professor Christopher Pinney (UCL Anthropology)
M.K Gandhi, famously described as a ‘half-naked fakir’, has been visually defined by his dhoti (loincloth). In contemporary India his public image competes with those of other political figures of his era who are depicted in a suit (the Dalit leader B.R Ambedkar) and a trilby (the Marxist revolutionary Bhagat Singh). Professor Pinney will consider what these costumes signify and the very political choices they continue to embody.
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